So.  Evidently the baking ignitor in my oven breaking (and still being broken) was not enough in the technical difficulty arena.  Let me recap in order to explain why I will probably not get a new food post up until tomorrow:
 

I cannot bake.  My oven is still BROKEN!
I cannot wash dishes.  The pump for our [...]

My boys have always enjoyed cooking with me.  I have daily “cooking buddies”.  The kids take turns (with the help of a wheel that keeps track of whose turn it is) helping me prepare dinner.  There is much weeping, gnashing of teeth and rending of hair when someone’s turn is missed or Mom exerts executive [...]

“Lift me up and take me back
Don’t let me keep on walking…
Walking on broken glass
Walking on walking on broken glass”
Annie Lennox
 
This song has been tearing through my head lately.  We have had an abnormally high number of broken dishes around chez us lately.  In the last two weeks someone or another has broken one plate, [...]

When we finished up our end of the school year testing a couple weeks ago we were due for a celebration.  The boys, after a great deal of discussion over lunch, decided to celebrate by putting together their own picnic.  Because really; what do you do immediately after eating?  You plan a picnic, of course.   They [...]

Ty needed some new summer shoes.  I scoured the internet for bargains.  It ain’t cheap to shoe 5 kids, let me tell you.  I briefly toyed with the idea of learning to make shoes and then came to my senses and clicked my way over to eBay.  Two minutes later I had purchased a bright [...]

I’ve been experimenting lately with trying to motivate the kids into helping me keep the house cleaner. I was slightly tired of having things stick to my feet as I walked through the house and having to move multiple bionicles in order to find a seat on the couch. I think I have finally stumbled [...]

 
They ate the crickets. I have video evidence and I will show this to their future wives. Sometimes revenge is a dish best served cold.
 
I’d like to apologize for the grainy quality of the video, but it was the best I could rustle up on short order.  I used my digital camera for the process. 
 
Also, [...]

 
…The thing is that snails in aioli really are great.  A few million Frenchmen can’t be wrong!

…That is what my kids told me yesterday when asking whether I could help them roast crickets and then dip them in chocolate.  That is what I get for allowing them to read books about survival skills. 
 
I have 9 crickets chilling, literally, in my fridge in preparation to roast them.  Mmm hmm.  I said I’m [...]

Aidan, age 8, and Ty, age 6,  came flying through the door while I was preparing tonight’s deja food masterpiece.  Aidan, tightly grasping two cups with the open ends pushed together yelled, “Ty just had the BEST idea for dessert tonight, Mom.  Tell her Ty!”
 
At this point I expected them to show me some wild strawberries from [...]